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That would be a prelude to 'long-term operation of a space station, ' he said.

Basically, the answer was that the space shuttle and space station are kept brightly lip (lit). So it is difficult to see a lot of stars.

Part of a space station solar panel is visible at image upper right; behind the panel, a bright region indicates the Sun low on the horizon.

For the next few years at least, Russian boosters will be the only way to take U. S. astronauts to and from the space station.

The speed at which this debris moves means any sort of impact with the space station would be catastrophic.

We have ridden in a spaceship having got to a space station , have got to Mars after a brief rest having passed.

It's been tested and retested, and now it's nearly ready to go on its maiden voyage to resupply the international space station.

He said the odor is noticeable on re-entering the space station after the airlock's outer hatch is locked and the inner door is reopened.

His margin of error was miniscule since the space station sped across the face of our solar system's star in less than a second.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the goal is to make full use of the space station as "the national lab it was envisioned to be. "

basically the answer was that the space shuttle and the space station are kept brightly lit , so it is difficult to see a lot of stars.

Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the International Space Station, to which China does not belong.

Tomorrow Atlantis will hook up the International Space Station to carry out a space construction project.

"A space station cannot be launched in one shot. The modules must be launched separately and then assembled in space, " she said.

The U. S. space shuttle Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station and is ready to dock with it on Sunday.

Officials may have to fire the space station's engines to nudge it out of the way.

Eight and a half minutes later she was in orbit, ready to complete her mission of carrying supplies to the space station.

Unlike on Earth, technology on the space station allows for almost unlimited power from the sun, he said.

NASA faces a year 2010 deadline for completing the building of the orbiting space station and of retiring the shuttles.

But the astronauts are still trying to figure out why the computer system on the Russian side of International Space Station crashed.

Officials say they did not find anything serious. The shuttle is due to dock at the International Space Station tomorrow.

Four years from now, the company plans for real modules to be launched and assembled into the solar system's first private space station.

Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the 400-tonne International Space Station, to which China does not belong.

So far it's the only project in the world with an artificial climate and integral life support - just like on the space station.

We've done two so far, we'll be announcing two more on the Soyuz to go up to the space station for 20 million dollars.

Space officials said the Soyuz rocket had reached orbit safely and would dock with the International Space Station (ISS) in about two days.

"It's OK, " Deshmukh reassures me, casually taking a slug from his own cup. "It's the same technology they use on the space station. "

You feel the exhilaration of being an explorer when she talks about looking out the window of the space station just before going to bed.

The space station costs upward of $100 billion, yet its critics call it a "station to nowhere. "

Much of the science done on the International Space Station involves difficult-to-understand concepts with long, hard-to-pronounce names.

"The primary purpose of China's manned space station is to peacefully explore space, and through it, serve mankind, " he said.

I looked around at the monitors into a vast horizon of heavens, feeling like I was on a space station in the center of the universe.

For the first time in its history, NASA has decided to turn over the transport of space-station cargo to the commercial sector.

Budget Permitting, China Aims to Be Able to Put Man on Moon, Build Space Station in 15 Years.

There also is one Japanese astronaut, Koichi Wakata, who will move into the space station for at least three months.

The main topic of this paper is around the design and implementation of communication protocol of amateur radio space station.

The space station's urine collection unit was out of commission in 2008 when a faulty pump had to be flown up from the Shuttle Discovery.

STS-130 will represent a major milestone mission, as it will be bringing up the last major United States addition to the space station.

The shuttle is pulled away from the International Space Station and is expected to touch down on Wednesday.

A vacuum is needed for the creation of these special metals, thereby justifying the mandate for a large, permanently manned space station.

The last space station module to be delivered by a shuttle also happens to be the first Russian module delivered to the ISS by a shuttle.

In the twentieth century, the ideas having the Elevator transport people up to a space station wasfactored into the theory.

But its Falcon 9 rocket, the one that would be used to carry astronauts to the space station, has yet to have its first launching.

China was the third country to launch its own manned space missions in 2003 and is now talking of a space station by 2020.

The shuttle must be launched by Wednesday or it will have to wait for a Russian supply run to the International Space Station.

The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way home after working more than a week to improve the International Space Station.

The general ideais to have a base station, either stationary or mobile, with a cable connecting it to the space station.

This spring, he said former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi paid $35 million to fly to the international space station.

The last shuttle mission is scheduled for September 2010, when construction of the international space station is expected to be complete.

Take a look at some of the amazing images of Earth as see through the International Space Station's windows.

We're going to be real thankful, for the opportunity that we have to fly aboard this magnificient space station.

Too big, in fact, to be brought up on any other vehicle that visits the space station or any that's being planned.

There was no gravity in space, so the space station made its own.

Commander Mark Kelly noted that Kibo was the "hope for the space station, " then radioed: "Now stand by for the greatest show on Earth! "

After it reaches orbit, the craft will be dropped, and its hybrid motors will be used to adjust its orbit or dock it to a space station.

Because of its altitude of more than 1, 000 miles, observers aboard the space station will be able to see vast areas of the earth's surface.

Ilooked around at the monitors into a vast horizon of heavens, feeling like Iwas on a space station in the center of the universe.

That will not only open up the taxi-to-the-space-station market, but will also allow him to tout for tourist business.

The lookout also will provide 360-degree views of the space station, allowing the crew to see directly outside during robotic work.

The conical rod typed docking mechanism is one of the standard configurations in the current international space station.

That should allow NASA to transport a much greater number of astronauts and to get much more use out of the space station.

The space station has grown into a behemoth outpost 355 km up, home to three people at any given time - soon to be six.

A core module will be launched around 2020 and that, along with experimental modules, will form the space station, he said.

Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed.

With the increasing size of the space station crew comes an increasing amount of crew time available to be spent on science.

SpaceX already has a billion-and-a-half-dollar deal with NASA to use a smaller rocket to transport cargo to the International Space Station.

UNDAUNTED by NASA's cool response to its interest in the International Space Station, China is going it alone.

Endeavour delivered the two billion US dollar cosmic ray detector that will remain on the space station for the next decade.

The company's CST-100 spacecraft can carry up to seven passengers to destinations such as the International Space Station.

There were buttons to open all the space station doors and buttons to turn on all the lights.

The mission of Endeavour is to deliver spare parts to the space station and a last segment of the Japanese Kibo lab.

Saturday night's spacewalk, which lasted six hours, was the last major space station job for Endeavour's crew.

"Looking out on the Earth is just inspiring, " said space station resident Timothy "TJ" Creamer.

D: You know a lot about space travel. Can I show your space station to my parents?

The grossly overpriced International Space Station would be completed by 2010, allowing the outdated space shuttles to be retired.

A Russian space station supply ship failed to reach orbit and crashed with a thunderous boom into Siberia on Wednesday.

The U. S. orbITed ITs first space station in 1973; called Skylab, IT was equipped as a solar observatory and medical laboratory.

Chinese leaders have been working toward a manned space station since at least 1992 in what is known as Project 921.

The shuttle Endeavour, as photographed over Earth by an International Space Station crew member.

NASA is now poised to install newer versions of this software on the same probe and on the International Space Station.

"In the space station there was no sensation of up or down, " he recalls.

And on the International Space Station, commander Scott Kelly led NASA in a moment of silence for his sister-in-law, Rep.

NASA is also hoping that private, commercial companies will soon be able to fly astronauts to the space station in newly developed vehicles.

So both methods of orbit design are suitable for designing orbit of concomitant satellite formation flying around the space station.

Finally, the company will use it to send the goods to the international space station and staff.

Meanwhile, China moves ahead with plans for a competing space station of its own.

If the next stages of testing go to plan, China will launch further modules to be assembled into a space station by 2020.

China expects to launch the space station's first module later this year, followed by a manned spacecraft to dock with it.

Or what a difference we could make for our countless homeless citizens, who more than anything else need a space station to call their own.

It's the size of a double-decker bus, and will deliver much needed food, air, fuel, and equipment to the space station's astronauts.

At the time, rocket science was still in its infancy, so RAND's call for an orbiting space station was revolutionary.

In case of irreparable damage, the astronauts could move into the space station for two to three months and await rescue by another shuttle.

Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne has spoken of his pride at taking command of the International Space Station.

China has not been invited to join the International Space Station project, despite a news report from Russia suggesting otherwise.

The design is still being worked out but some sketches released by Orbital Technologies resemble the International Space Station.

There are two games in the space station, seizing the enemy's armed, six cruisers and three supporting space ship.

Moreover, the cost of using it to service the space station would require a dramatic and improbable increase in NASA's budget.

Back then, NASA was gearing up to staff the International Space Station and the shuttles that supplied it.

The Small Magellanic Cloud isn't much to look at with the naked eye, even for visitors to the International Space Station.

The International Space Station will enable humankind to carry out a lot of valuable research.

The space station will be orbiting Earth for at least another five years, but probably much longer.

Its because our money is paying the cost of this launch and their planned space station. . . usa is stupid. . .

Russia's 135-ton Mir space station slammed through the atmosphere in 2001, but it was a controlled dive into the Pacific.

Major delays occurred in the construction of the International Space Station due to cutbacks in funding by the Russian government.

Space station program manager Mike Suffredini said the first thing astronauts need to do is fix the wings .

In 2010, it was resurrected, and downsized to be used as a "lifeboat, " in the event of an emergency on the space station.

The shuttle Discovery docked last Saturday afternoon with the International Space Station for the last time.

Benchmark studies of the effectiveness of structural and internal materials as radiation shielding for the international space station.

Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle.

Discovery is delivering a new astronaut sleeping quarters, an ammonia tank and a gyroscope for the space station.

The space station has been a long hard road, but it's been an extremely productive road.

NASA engineers are looking at photos and video of a torn solar panel from the International Space Station.

As it is necessary to have a health check-up and quarantine, a few more days in the space station will be required.

The space station project is currently referred to as Tiangong, or "heavenly palace" .

The International Space Station is an international city in the sky .

Space station program manager Mike Suffredini said the first thing astronautsneed to do is fix the wings.

Beijing hopes to put a rover on the moon by 2013, and then a man on the moon, as well as opening its own space station by around 2020.

It is a learning curve China hopes will eventually lead to the construction of a space station, starting at the end of the decade.

The company shuttled a scientific payload to an orbiting space station.

The vehicle's first outing of 2011 is likely to be a re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Launched by rocket, the Jules Verne uses a mixture of GPS and lasers to navigate its own way to the space station and dock with it.

Japan has set next month for the debut launch of a new unmanned resupply spacecraft for the International Space Station.

The American space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off for the International Space Station on its final mission.

During the mission, the seven-astronaut crew will deliver and install the space station's final set of solar panels.

After completing the International Space Station in two years, NASA plans to shift its space exploration program to the moon.

The Urban Space Station has so far taken a back seat to another urban farming concept: the vertical farm.

American, Russian and Korean astronauts aboard the International Space Station listen to a call from mission control in Russia in April.

That bill also extended the lifespan of the space station from a planned 2015 decommissioning to at least 2020.

These 2 astronauts, part of Discovery's crew, have started a spacewalk to help install a new component on the International Space Station.

As orbital sunrise dawns, the sun's blinding rays peek out from behind space station equipment.

That will not only let him offer a taxi service to the space station, but will also allow him to tout for tourist business.

Crewmen wearing pressurized suits assemble cables to rockets, which serve as building units for an inhabitable space station.

Now he is working on a rocket (the Falcon 9) and a spacecraft (the Dragon) that are meant to take passengers and cargo to the space station.

The space lab could also serve as a platform for space medicine and micro-gravity experiments similar to the International Space Station.

For a couple of seconds, the space station is bathed in a coppery light and then complete darkness.

The Long March 5 rocket that is being prepared to launch the 20-ton modules for the actual space station also remains untested.

The unmanned spacecraft docked automatically yesterday with an orbiting space station.

Help is on the way for the crew aboard the International Space Station where the only toilet is having some trouble.

The Pathfinder mission to the Mars and the problems with the Mir space station drew millions of people to the Web for up-to-date details.

This was almost certainly in preparation for its three-spacecraft space station.

The rest of contaminants is thrown away, said Marybeth Edeen, the space station's national lab manager who was in charge of the system.

They say that six command and control computers aboard the Russian segment of the space station failed Wednesday.

Here is our space station. Let? s get ready to land .

Two astronauts are on a spacewalk to spruce up the international space station's new Japanese lab.

Atlantis will pull away from the space station early Tuesday and aim for a pre-dawn touchdown Thursday. Then it will be retired.

There is going to be a tall building . There will be a space station .

No need to look through a telescope, fly to a space station or do anything else.

It's also crucial as the space station is about to expand from three people living on board to six.

The shuttle had been due to take off on a 2-week mission to the International Space Station. BBC News.

But due to funding difficulties, the United States and Russia agreed in 1993 to build a combined station -- the International Space Station.

Sixteen countries from all around the world worked together to plan and construct a permanent space station.

The space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth.

It is intended to be installed inside the space station to collect data from strain gauges on a major outside beam.

Soviet charges that the space station was merely a military launching platform alarmed a number of nonaligned nations.

The crews of Atlantis and the International Space Station had an emotional farewell Sunday before they closed the hatches.

But the International Space Station may be the perfect place for a humanoid robot.

The Ninth Sign was the U. S. Space Station Skylab, which fell to Earth in 1979.

Another of Beth's illustrations was a shuttle docking to a space station .

The doubling of the space station crew a few months ago, to six, makes the new record possible.

This will be the last shuttle mission to carry a crew member to or from the space station.

China aims to set up a simple space lab in 2011 and a manned space station in 2020.

An unmanned Russian supply ship has now docked securely with the International Space Station following an earlier unsuccessful attempt.

Japan has launched a new type of unmanned rocket and cargo module to carry supplies to the International Space Station.

The only Neutron-S missiles we have left are still in space dock at Space Station Liberty.

As the traffic levels to space station are increased, the optimum operation altitude should be lower.

Atlantis is due to blast off on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.

1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.

APDA - Androgynous peripheral docking assembly. A docking mechanism used at the International Space Station.

This lifting muscle, again, will be necessary for the construction of a space station.

Few foodstuffs other than those on the space station rack up more miles than a leg of New Zealand lamb on a British dinner table.

Later Tiangong versions will go on longer missions to prepare for the launch of the space station in parts.

Mission specialist Bill moves around the Space Station .

It was not until 1995, when Eileen Collins piloted the STS-63 shuttle around the MIR space station, that the Mercury 13 met again.

"I've got three more to go: the space station, Everest, and the lunar surface, " he says. "After that, I'm done. "

Still hanging on to your Christmas cash or Hanukkah gelt? Well, here's something for sale: 10-day trips to the International Space Station.

Space shuttle Discovery has launched on a mission to deliver new science equipment to the International Space Station.

The risky space walk was a step toward China's longer-term goal of assembling a space lab and then a larger space station.

If NASA decides to reduce tours of duty at the space station from six months to four, that would mean a need for even more astronauts.

It is broadly consistent with his smaller study of missions to Mir, the Soviet Union's first space station.

NASA wants to double the size of the space station crew to six people at the end of May.

took its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launched an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.

In the wake of the 2003 Columbia disaster, President Bush decided to complete the space station and retire the shuttle by 2010.

Boeing said Friday it plans to let employees take its CST-100 capsule to the International Space Station.

The shuttle needs to deliver one last set of solar wings and some critical parts for the space station's water-recycling system.

In the upper-left, is the tail of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which docked with the Space Station during the STS-131 mission.

The damage had to be fixed for construction on the Space Station to continue.

It has been reported that astronauts on long-duration missions on board the space station experience changes in taste.

Recent years, research on the technology of redundant dual-arm robot system for space-station operation gets considerable attention.

This video tour of the planet is a compilation of time-lapse images shot from the International Space Station (ISS).

The last space-walk in the 30-year history of the US shuttle programme has been completed at the International Space Station.

Discovery undocked from the orbiting scientific outpost after re-stocking the space station, repairing its equipment and haul away trash.

He says nations should work together, just like with the International Space Station -- this time, to put colonies on the moon and Mars.

The combination of the clearer Destiny window and the WORF platform adds to the space station's capabilities for Earth science.

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson have spent months living on the International Space Station.

The simulation results show influence of structural flexibility on the dynamics of space station deployable mechanism.

So all six astronauts on the space station will almost certainly have left the orbiting lab by mid-November.

He was living in Russia before his launch three weeks ago from Kazakhstan, training for this six-month space station mission.

The Shenzhou docking missions are seen as key milestones along the path to building a space station in orbit.

It intends to rely on Russia to ferry crews to the space station and on private companies to deliver cargo during the gap.

Still unable to raise the fleet or Space Station Liberty, Captain.

Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette.

And in another image taken from the International Space Station, the old and new areas of Doha, Qatar can be seen from space.

The space station was originally conceived as a platform for sending spacecraft to other planets.

and the International Space Station has extra shielding to protect astronauts from its effects.

NASA commissioned Goodyear to build prototypes of an inflatable space station, which looked like a big rubber inner tube.

In a unique photo op, the departing crew will photograph Endeavour parked at the space station.

When shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station, it will find most of the parking spots already taken.

Seven earlier space tourists have made visits to the space station, riding in Russian Soyuz capsules.

Discovery will carry a seven-strong crew on a mission to take supplies and parts to the International Space Station.

Experts say the upcoming launch will place China close to putting a space station in orbit.

The gentle movement would stop them from taking out communications satellites or hitting the International Space Station.

Agricultural fields south-west of Perdizes, Brazil, photographed from the international space station.

After that, the US will rely on Russian spacecraft to ferry their astronauts to the International Space Station.

This would include any American and European astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS).

From the International Space Station, the spacecraft will enter the next 4 days inertial flight.

The device can be run on the International Space Station orbit diameter 1-10 cm in the garbage "swept" out of orbit.

On Monday, three of the six space station residents will head home in their Russian Soyuz capsule after a five-month mission.

It was quiet morning at morning at stardust space Station. Captain Stella was checking the space shuttle.

The Tiangong 1 is a trial module; not the building block of a space station.

We're going to set up a Neutron-S missile inside the space station.

The International Space Station is a bit roomier .

More than 80 flights of U. S. space shuttles and Russian rockets will be necessary to complete the International Space Station.

NASA believes any risk to the international space station and its three astronauts is low.

A top Chinese space official says China's next focus in space will be the construction of a space station and putting a man on the moon.

Its supporters have justified the space station as a terminal for the space shuttle.

Close Up This assembly is part of an international space station simulator .

The 'Cupola', attached to the nadir side of the Space Station, gives a panoramic view of our beautiful planet.

China's space station is slated to open around 2020, the same year the International Space Station is scheduled to close.

Russia's orbiting Mir space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.

This picture was taken during the shuttle orbiter Endeavour's mission to expand the space station last August.

The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history.

Chinese astronauts, including two women, underwent training for manned missions to the space station.

Tito lifts off from a Russian rocket with two cosmonauts on a journey to the International Space Station.

Russia's orbiting Mir Space Station ends its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.

It also poses 'potentially catastrophic risk' to astronauts, satellites and the International Space Station.

Valuable experience has been gained with human operations in space, particularly with the International Space Station.

The docking technologies are believed to be crucial for China's ambition to build a permanent manned space station around 2020.

Atlantis will deliver the ESA's Columbus Laboratory to the space station, and the shuttle crew will include ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel.

Discovery is delivering a new astronaut sleepingcordersandquartersan ammonia tank anda gyroscope for the space station.

This assembly is part of an international space station simulator.

Daily communication time was given between satellites and ground station, satellites and space station.

It seems the more the US tries to exclude or encircle China, the stronger they become. Not just for this space station thing.

The space shuttle Atlantis has landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base after a two-week mission to the International Space Station.

In this paper, the quaternion is taken for positional parameters to control attitude of the space station.

His latest story, The Machinery of Love and Grace, about a grieving space station, was published online in late July.

After that , space station partners will rely on Russian and private launch vehicles to ferry supplies to the orbiter .

There have even been space tourists who have traveled into outer space to the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth.

After more than a month's delay, Endeavor and its seven astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station.

This spectacular image of sunset on the Indian Ocean was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The final flight in September will deliver more supplies and leave a storage room permanently attached to the space station.